Zick v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM M. CONLEY, District Judge.

This case asks whether winter weather conditions on a severe, downhill section of *887Hilltop Road in Wausau, Wisconsin, should, in fact, have kept a U.S. mail carrier from “the swift completion of [his] appointed rounds,” or at least from doing so behind the wheel of a truck. On December 9, 2009, plaintiff Stephen Zick was struck from behind by a slow-moving, but out-of-control, residential U.S. mail delivery truck while using his snow blower to clear the street near his mailbox. Zick brings this action under the Federal Tort Claims Act,…